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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

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Western politicians lie, millions die: The architecture of manufactured consent

Western politicians lie, millions die: The architecture of manufactured consent

Modern ‘victory’ is prepared long before the first shot. It is paved with a sophisticated architecture of manufactured consent—where political...

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

The West Wing takeover: Replacing Libyan democracy with transactionalism

The West Wing takeover: Replacing Libyan democracy with transactionalism
02.04.2026 40

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

When presidents lie, diplomacy dies: The global cost of post-truth under Trump

26.03.2026 60

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Board of Peace is a tactical smokescreen for war in Iran and Gaza

In recent days, the first publicly reported  meeting between Hamas representatives and President Trump’s newly established Board of Peace (BoP)...

19.03.2026 60

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Iran at 47: An anniversary or an obituary?

12.02.2026 50

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The “Donkey Flights” Project: Saving Animals While Strangling Gaza

05.02.2026 80

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Libya and the UN mandates: A laboratory of frozen chaos

29.01.2026 50

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Will Libya’s judicial divorce bury the UNSMIL roadmap for good?

22.01.2026 60

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Somaliland and the Israeli recognition: A post-mortem of Arab strategic impotence

15.01.2026 80

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Maduro’s ‘capture’ and the linguistic coup: Why I have a problem with the word

08.01.2026 100

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Despite war threats, youth revive Tripoli

01.01.2026 100

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Despite war threats, youth revive Tripoli

31.12.2025 30

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Libya’s dried-up banks: The daily struggle for cash

25.12.2025 100

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Libya: One of the most corrupt countries, yet still celebrates Anti-Corruption Day!

18.12.2025 60

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Split on the ground, intact on paper: Libya’s enduring limbo

11.12.2025 70

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How Israel poisoned Gaza’s agricultural land for years to come

04.12.2025 80

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Beyond jargon: Tripoli’s ‘Supreme Authority’ is a self-preservation plot, not a co-ordinating framework

27.11.2025 80

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

One funeral, one birth: From Cheney’s dark shadows to Mamdani’s bright horizon

20.11.2025 70

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Haftar’s “Libyan solution”: A sovereignty claim or a power grab?

13.11.2025 80

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Israel in peace and war: How society rejects peace and endorses genocide

06.11.2025 70

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Libya at the mercy of regional powers: Where is Washington?

30.10.2025 60

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Is Libya’s UN-facilitated political process stalling again?

23.10.2025 70

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On the Nobel Peace Prize’s troubling drift

16.10.2025 70

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

US 3Ps in Africa: Prosperity for Whom?

09.10.2025 50

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From battlefield to boardroom: Turkey’s grip on Libya

02.10.2025 70

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Rhetoric vs. reality: The Doha summit and the Gulf’s limits on confronting Israel

25.09.2025 60

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The excruciating wait: Tripoli on the brink of a war that may never happen

12.09.2025 30

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

A losing battle: Israel’s struggle against genocide scholars

04.09.2025 30

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Yes, we kill journalist and the world can go to hell

28.08.2025 80

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Haftar the gambler gambles again

21.08.2025 70

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The broadcast war: Israel’s pride in its crimes

14.08.2025 70

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The world held hostage: The price of dissent in the face of genocide

07.08.2025 40

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To recognise or not to recognise is not the question

31.07.2025 60

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Amman’s edge: The Kingdom’s perilous balancing act

24.07.2025 50

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Tunisia’s slow unravelling: From Arab Spring beacon to police state

17.07.2025 60

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From free to fallen: The mysterious death of a Libyan activist

10.07.2025 50

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Wars at arm’s length: How the UAE became a shadowy power and betrayed Sheikh Zayed’s legacy

03.07.2025 70

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Emirates of chaos: How the UAE fuels war and walks free

28.06.2025 80

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Emirates of chaos: How the UAE fuels war and walks free

26.06.2025 20

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

Emirates of chaos: How the UAE fuels war and walks free

26.06.2025 30

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False witness: How Europe profited from the Iran deal, then watched it burn under Trump

19.06.2025 70

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Lost impunity: Israel’s waning global support over its genocide in Gaza

14.06.2025 70

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Libya’s troubled GNU is not going just yet, further clashes are likely

05.06.2025 60

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The set-up that flopped: Trump tried a Zelensky moment with Ramaphosa while targeting South Africa over Israel

29.05.2025 30

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Clashes in Tripoli: Causes, key players, and potential repercussions

15.05.2025 50

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Camp David peace treaty is the mother of all evils

08.05.2025 60

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Debunking Netanyahu’s barrage of lies

01.05.2025 50

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Echoes of burning flesh: From ‘The Napalm Girl’ to Hind Rajab

24.04.2025 30

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From Vietnam to Gaza: when peaceful opposition to US foreign policy becomes an accusation

17.04.2025 50

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Israel has turned Gaza into a 21st century concentration camp

10.04.2025 30

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